An E-Delphi study to facilitate animal welfare assessment in Italian zoos and aquaria.

Ensuring animal welfare is a key aspect of animal management in zoological facilities and aquaria, representing a pivotal facet of their mission. Italy currently lacks a comprehensive and valuable assessment methodology for evaluating the welfare of captive animals. To address this gap, the present study aimed to identify the most important criteria that should be considered in the welfare management and assessment of animals housed in Italian zoos and aquaria.

chooseGCM: A Toolkit to Select General Circulation Models in R.

Studies on climate change need to make projections based on predicted scenarios. One source of variability in these projections is the choice of general circulation models (GCMs). There is a lack of consensus on how to choose the GCMs.

Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy: Technology and Applications: introduction to the feature issue.

Welcome to the 2024 Feature Issue on in Biomedical Optics Express! This feature issue provides an exemplary sample of established and emerging DOS technologies as well as their biomedical applications through 27 contributed research papers and 1 invited review article. DOS researchers are inherently multidisciplinary, advancing topics spanning the basic theory of light-tissue interactions, computational modeling, technique and system development and preclinical and clinical applications. You will find this full range of topics represented in this feature issue.